Downgrade kde 4.4 to kde 4.3

Question

I've just upgraded my system. Now I'm running kde 4.4. Everything is slower. After the system upgrade about 90 % of my ram (1G) is used constantly. Before the upgrade it rarely was more then 30 %.  So I want to get rid of kde 4.4 and downgrade is to kde 4.3.
After reading the 'Downgrading packages' wiki it seemed pretty simple:
You may be able to downgrade the package trivially by visiting /var/cache/pacman/pkg  on your system and seeing if the older version of the package is stored there. (If you have not run pacman -Scc recently, it should be there). If the package is there, you can install that version using pacman -U pkgname-olderpkgver.pkg.tar.gz.
One problem: there is not just one kde 4.4 package to downgrade. Do I have to downgrade all the different kde packages one by one? Or is there a more elegant way?
Last edited by lnx (2010-02-20 18:57:24)

Answer 1

You could find an outdated mirror and upgrade from there
or
goto /var/cache/pacman/pkg
an do pacman -U kde*4.3*.pkg.tar.gz ( but this will not be a guarantee that everything will be running fine )
Did you try to run kde 4.4 sc with a clean .kde4 folder ?
maybe even backup your entire home dir and start with an empty home ?